Today started out bad and got steadily worse. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. (that’s right, a.m. in the middle of the night) feeling sick and couldn’t go back to sleep. Not a good way to start the day. Since we were leaving the mountain to do some errands in the valley, I checked outside. [...]
I spent several hours the other day at the Henry’s Lake Fish Hatchery in Island Park, Idaho watching the spawners coming up the ladders to spawn. It was fabulous. The wildlife biologists have gathered over 4.5 million eggs this year — as many as they can feed with their limited budget.
But there was another side [...]
If you’re a doctor or an accountant, or some other professional, you know what continuing education is. It’s the additional education the licensing board requires you take each year to make sure you’re current in your field. In business we don’t have such a rule, although maybe we should.
It doesn’t take very long to become [...]
I talked to a close friend who spent 20 minutes in the camera store the other day trying to find someone help him. Â (Good thing he’s the honest type, not given to “helping himself.”) Â During his wait, and while growing increasingly frustrated, he noticed the company mission statement on the wall by the door to [...]
Apparently, at one of the anti-tax “tea parties” in Texas, people were shouting, “secede. Secede.” Which would have been bad enough, but then the governor raised the stakes by not quashing the idea out of hand. While this whole thing is an over-reaction on the part of disenfranchised citizens, the whole idea intrigues me nonetheless.
Now [...]
That’s right. Another year has come and gone, and it’s time once again to pay your uncle. Fortunately for you, he only wants between a fourth and half of what you made last year. But you can take comfort knowing that your selfless contribution blessed the lives of several people who didn’t work last year [...]
The other day, a man I know well asked for some help preparing for an interview. He owns his own business and is very successful by any standard of measure. His problem is he’s not a great interviewee. Even though he’s been successful in his career, he lack the confidence to sit in front of [...]
One of the problems I often see as entrepreneurs try to bring their ideas to fruition is a problem with scale. Just because GM works with however many hundred thousand employees (or maybe it doesn’t?) that doesn’t mean it will work equally well with you and two high school kids in your garage. Now, I’m [...]
I watched this winter as a business that had historically been closed in the winter decided to remain open. Â This is a thriving business with a large, loyal clientele. Â Because of the business they’re in, there should have been little difference between summer and winter levels of business. Â
The problem was, nobody knew they were [...]
I had a conversation awhile back with a young man who was thinking of going to medical school. This is a bright young man, talented and focused. There’s no question (at least in my mind) that he will not only excel in medical school, but that he will also be a very good doctor.
His detractors [...]
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